Commentary: Facebook’s safeguards for the US election are the right move

Zuckerberg has even warned of “violence or civil unrest in the wake of this election”.

Though Trump won in 2016 through an electoral college victory, he lost the popular vote. He said, without evidence, that was because of millions of illegal votes for Hillary Clinton — by non-citizens or those voting twice. In July, Trump posted: “Mail-In Voting, unless changed by the courts, will lead to the most CORRUPT ELECTION in our Nation’s History!” Facebook appended a label linking to US government voting information pages.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the US House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law in Washington, DC, on Jul 29, 2020. Facebook first tagged that post with a standard label linking to its voter information pages, one which it had begun applying to many election-related posts.

Under some states’ laws, mailed-in ballots cannot be counted until election day, so observers have been predicting for months that accurate election night projections will be impossible this year.Zuckerberg told the New York Times its platforms would attempt to educate voters that nothing is wrong with such scenarios.Some predict a “red mirage”: Partial tallies on election night, mostly of in-person votes, may show Republicans in the lead. A “blue shift”As the numbers change, some may cry foul.

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